Hi, I have a similar problem. My laptop was on, online working fine over wifi, I went away, came back and the connection was lost. The light wont illuminate and windows no longer has my wifi card in device manager. If booted into bios and it says under wifi card that a dell wifi card is present but I can not get any further. The wifi card light doesnt come on and I cant connect. If i press the wifi button the little icon appears to say its on (or off if already on is selected) but it doesnt actually do anything, it doesnt turn anything on. Ive also tried scanning for hardware in device manager and doing a system restore which had no effect (except creating a load of directories with (2) at the end).

Any help would be appreciated

JasonHi, I have a similar problem. My laptop was on, online working fine over wifi, I went away, came back and the connection was lost. The light wont illuminate and windows no longer has my wifi card in device manager. If booted into bios and it says under wifi card that a dell wifi card is present but I can not get any further. The wifi card light doesnt come on and I cant connect. If i press the wifi button the little icon appears to say its on (or off if already on is selected) but it doesnt actually do anything, it doesnt turn anything on. Ive also tried scanning for hardware in device manager and doing a system restore which had no effect (except creating a load of directories with (2) at the end).

Further to my message the wifi card is not showing as present in bios now, it wasnt before then was then wasnt again. Does it sound like its just been fried. Ive taken the pannel off to look at it but it looks a bit hard to remove as theres some metal catch thing that looks like its soldered to the board that stops it moving so i couldnt pull it and re-seat it unless I have gotten it wrong of course.Further to my message the wifi card is not showing as present in bios now, it wasnt before then was then wasnt again. Does it sound like its just been fried. Ive taken the pannel off to look at it but it looks a bit hard to remove as theres some metal catch thing that looks like its soldered to the board that stops it moving so i couldnt pull it and re-seat it unless I have gotten it wrong of course.

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Yey i figured out how to reseat it. really easy the clips just push back, pops out and then put it back in and it all works again. god knows what hapened. Now to delete all that stuff with (2) stuck in front of it. The stuff in the kaspersky roll back update directory wont get off my hard drive, it refuses to be deleted.

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I neglected to ask in my 1st post.... are you still able to connect wirlelessly even though the WiFi LED is not lit?

If that is the case, then disregard my previous instructions. You simply have a failed LED. As long as your WiFi is working, the dead LED won't hurt anything. It isn't required for your WiFi radio to work. You can have it repaired if your computer is in warranty. Otherwise, I wouldn't worry about it.

I neglected to ask in my 1st post.... are you still able to connect wirlelessly even though the WiFi LED is not lit?

If that is the case, then disregard my previous instructions. You simply have a failed LED. As long as your WiFi is working, the dead LED won't hurt anything. It isn't required for your WiFi radio to work. You can have it repaired if your computer is in warranty. Otherwise, I wouldn't worry about it.

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